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watch cr4 ep 21, I know Talesin makes a joke that Luis doesn't need to check character stats to know whether he's good at cards, but this is totally a conversation between Bolaire and Azune, right?
Bolaire/Talesin being more improvisational/free-form, whereas Luis/Azune NEEDS TO KNOW IF HE'S GOOD AT CARDS
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Valarr in the novella
Okay, so I got myself a copy of AKOTSK. I knew it was going to be shorter than the TV show since it's only a hundred or so pages (I love almost all of the additions made to the show, especially to the women of the series), so I blew through The Hedge Knight in one sitting. AND! Valarr is a little lame? (/t)
I'm slightly disappointed that the details of the first joust didn't make it to screen (Lyonel being a dick to high houses by knocking their crests off into the crowd, the battle of the humfreys, the champion system, etc.), but there are some interesting points of characterization for Valarr, which only seem implied in the show.
That is, Valarr doesn't really take on challenges. Dunk (who is much more perceptive and introspective in the book, or maybe these traits are more noticeable when reading his internal dialogue) notices that "the truly dangerous men are riding past his shield as if they do not see it." Valarr, in fact, spends most of the first day's events cuntily sipping out of a goblet (see fig. A)
And, when in need of a 7th knight to aid Dunk in the trial, Baelor joins the fight in the show just as in the book, donning his son's armor. In the book, however, there is a moment where Dunk and even lord Ashford mistake him for Valarr, "The Young Prince. Gods be good, is it truly him?" Obviously, the moment is built for the reveal of Baelor. What a shock that the next in line to the Iron Throne would join the cause of a hedge knight. But, I couldn't help but wonder, why wasn't it Valarr?
In the lists, Valarr managed to avoid any true fight. One could say that, as a Targaryen, he was in attendance more for PR than honor. But Aerion Targaryen struck Hardyng's shield and challenged the knight who had humbled 14 that day before(note from the book: Dunk considered Hardyng to have the day's honor; he was a fucking bulldog, and we don't appreciate that enough).
So I am left with more questions than I had before reading this novella. With the fact in mind that we won't be seeing much of Valarr in the subsequent stories, It's likely they will not be answered in canon. However, they are interesting to think about.
Why does Valarr not fight? Is he bad at it? That's certainly what Dunk considered when mulling over which of the champions he'd have the best chance against. Or, is he a coward? A pacifist? Does he consider himself above tourneys? Or rather, why do the most dangerous knights avoid calling upon him? What could have been running through his head when his father woke him up early one morning to borrow his armor? Why was it not the young prince underneath the visor, come the trial? GRRM you have 24 hours (/j).
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let's do a little face scrunch and share our armour with papa :)
he said, worriedly, in a manner that makes everyone worry.
#mywebofdeceit
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RIP Valarr Targeryan, you would've loved vaccinations and hiding upstairs with your favorite cousins at family gatherings
everything is good and right in the world again
wishing you all a very happy chapter 8 upload
Everyone in Campaign 4 is living in a high fantasy epic about grief and politics and magic, except for Tyranny, who is living in Mean Girls from hell.
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happy hades 2 release day!
Something this season of Invincible has been doing that I find interesting is how it's engaging with the Superman archetype in the specific context of his role as the quote-unquote "top superhero-" what happens when "superhero" is enough of a demographic that you've got a bunch of moderately powerful ones, but then you've got one who's basically so overwhelmingly powerful compared to all the rest that from the perspective of the people in charge of planetary security, he's basically the only one who matters. There have been several subtle beats this season about how holding that position is distorting Mark's interactions with everyone around him without him even realizing- Robot leaves the Guardians not because he necessarily thinks Mark is right, but because he thinks it's important to stay on his good side. The Powerplex subplot has Scott's coworkers at the GDA expressly state that Mark is being granted infinitely more leeway by Cecil than anyone else would be, because he's their only plausible answer to the Viltrumites.
What's interesting is how they've made Rex the site of a lot of this. One of the first scenes of the season is him complaining about the needing constant adjustments to the hack-job prosthetic he was issued after the Lizard League debacle, juxtaposed against the bajillion dollar bespoke machine that was built for no purpose other than training Invincible specifically. When they go out into the field together, Rex is perfectly in his element against a single street-level opponent, but when Multipaul jumps him, Invincible has to pull his ass out of the fire via intense meatgrinder violence. It isn't a coincidence that in the same episode where (Debbie's boyfriend) Paul realizes the gulf between the impact his job has on the world and the impact that Mark and Oliver have, with Debbie assures him that it's okay to be normal- Rex gets his fatal crossing-the-Rubicon moment by refusing to retire with Rae.
Rae can read the writing on the wall here about the power scaling of the story she's in; capes like Invincible and Immortal brush off everything the world can throw at them, but she and Rex are gag characters- a couple extra bodies who, in the best case scenario, are somewhat useful to have around, and in the worst case scenario end up in the hospital for months at a time before getting stitched up and thrown back into the fray so the GDA can wring a little more utility out of them. But even though his lifestyle is very clearly going to get him killed, Rex refuses to quit because being a superhero- even a middling one- is all he has going on. He's never going to be as relevant as Invincible because he's nowhere near as powerful as Invincible, but if he doesn't keep throwing himself at the same kinds of problems Invincible does, he'd be nobody. He'd be Paul. Is being Paul worse than dying? Well, we're gonna find out in a minute
Invincible pulling that bullshit where he refuses to leave Eve's bedside during the height of the fighting and Cecil kind of just has to let him- which may or may not have indirectly resulted in the deaths of several superheroes because he wasn't on the front lines- is another salient example of this
Excellent analysis & commentary. The scene where Cecil (gently) confronts Mark at Eve's bedside left me furious.
"I hope you don't regret your choice."
Cecil must be the most patient man on the planet... because he has no choice. That's all he COULD say, under the circumstances. Oof.
so warsong update huh
poor mel is going to have nightmares for weeks im telling you
keep forgetting how fucking funny this game is
《奥林匹斯山惊现神秘六足生物 (A mysterious hexapod has been discovered on Mount Olympus)》
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yeah sure I'll watch this light-hearted K-drama about an autistic attorney, what's the worst that could happe—
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